Bangalore

A winding-up petition has been admitted in the Karnataka High Court against Vijay Mallya’s grounded carrier Kingfisher Airlines Limited.

Justice Ananda Byrareddy admitted the petition filed by a consortium of banks led by State Bank of India after he determined that the claim of the creditors that the company was commercially insolvent is bonafide and hence unable to pay off its dues.

Kingfisher Airlines has been sued in various courts for non-payment of dues to its creditors. The consortium of 17 banks have claimed an outstanding of over Rs 7,000 crore from the carrier.

Second largest country in the Gulf wants to expand trade beyond oil

Apart from oil, apples, tourism and software education are high on Iran’s trade agenda with India, according to the country’s ambassador in New Delhi Gholam Reza Ansari.

The Kumbalgod police have arrested a 55-year-old man on charges of raping his minor daughter for the past two months and impregnating her.

The accused was living with his wife, two sons and the 16-year-old daughter, a first pre-university student. While the accused is a construction labourer, his wife works in a garment factory here, the police said.

The accused allegedly raped his daughter over a period of two months, after she returned home from college.

He would threaten her with dire consequences if she revealed it to anyone.

The city police on Friday secured the custody of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal for 10 days.

The police had filed a petition with the special NIA court in Delhi seeking his custody in connection with Chinnaswamy stadium blasts hours before the IPL cricket match between Royal Challengers and Mumbai Indians here in April 2010.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Hemanth Nimbalkar said Yaseen Bhatkal would be brought to Bangalore for questioning.

The police had filed a petition before the NIA court with a Magistrate court’s production warrant issued against him.

Contrary to the recent trend of political activism of top some corporate figures who have joined the Aam Adami Party (AAP), Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Saturday ruled out joining any political party.

“I will not be a part of AAP and for that matter any other political party,” she told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of a Biocon product in Bangalore.

Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw said she would like herself to play the role of giving suggestions to political parties on good governance and economy.

Early-stage investment firm Inventus Capital has raised 106 million dollars in a second fund that will be invested from its offices in US-India startups.

Managing director John Dougery said that the firm is already investing from the new fund, in deals with e-commerce business Unbxd, an insurance business PolicyBazaar in India, Bangalore-based online travel agency eDreams and database startup Espresso Logic in Santa Clara, TechCrunch reports.

The Karnataka Bank opened its 44th ATM in the northern region at Ashok Vihar in Nangloi on Thursday afternoon.

The ATM was opened by I.Ramamohan Rao, a former director of the bank.

Vijay Shankar Rai, Deputy General Manager of the Karnataka Bank for the northern region, disclosed that the ATM can be operated by account holders of other banks also, and added that no charges would be levied for operating the ATM.

He also said that the ATM will have a 24-hour guard to ensure the safety of account holders using the facility. (ANI)

Glass nylon yarn or Chinese manja used for flying kites is jeopardize Black Kites and at least 10-15 Black Kites injured by hanging manja thread in a month received by the PFA, voluntary organisation working towards rescuing wildlife in City.

According to People for Animal (PFA), Rehabilitator Vinay said,“When manja thread cuts off while flying a kite, it comes down and hangs on tree tops. Since this hangs at a height, people do not bother to remove them.

Mr. Syed Hamid Mohsin, Chairman Salam Center distributed 1000 copies of Quran translated in Kannada among the police staff working in Office of Police Commissioner of Mangalore and in 20 police stations. In addition to this other books namely (Follow Me) Islam Shantia Dharma were also distributed. It is an attempt to eradicate various misunderstandings about Islam. It may be noted that Mangalore has been affected communal riots recently.

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The Karnatataka Police Wednesday moved a court here seeking custody of Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal in connection with the 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium blast case.

The state police requested District Judge I.S. Mehta at Patiala House Court here to hand over the custody of Bhatkal, telling him a Bangalore court has issued production warrant for Bhatkal asking for him to be brought before it on or before Jan 20.

The court has fixed Jan 17 for further hearing.

Controversial American evangelist Benny Hinn cancelled his visit to Bangalore to participate in a five-day religious programme from Wednesday on the city’s outskirts, a police official said.

“Hinn is not coming to Bangalore. He does not figure in the programme its organisers gave us to make security arrangements. He has cancelled his trip,” Bangalore Additional Commissioner (Law & Order) Kamal Pant told reporters here Tuesday/

A class I was allegedly sexually abused by a 60-year-old neighbour in Hebbal on Monday evening. The girl was five year-old.

Based on the complaint by the mother of the girl, Hebbal police arrested the man. The arrested has been identified as Krishna Reddy, 60, a cab driver.

According to Police ,the mother and the daughter lived alone in a rented house in the area as the mother had separated from her husband .

On Monday evening, the mother had gone out for tailoring work for a living when the incident is said to have occurred.

Amidst protests by some Hindu groups in parts of Karnataka, American evangelist Benny Hinn has cancelled his visit to the city tomorrow.

Saffron groups were up in arms against Hinn’s visit, alleging that the evangelist’s “hidden agenda” was to convert people to Christianity.

Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Kamal Panth told PTI, “Earlier organisers had said he will be coming; recently they have sent us a letter with names of pastors attending, which does not mention his name- so they have said he is not coming.”

One should know how to utilized the holiday on sunday from Bangaloreans.Yes, Bangaloreans made complete use of the holiday on Sunday, hoi polloi the markets and shops in Rajajinagar, Malleswaram and Gandhi Bazaar to shop for Makara Sankranti, which is the harvest festival which will be celebrated on Wednesday.

Not only the shops even the hawkers on pavements were seen doing a roaring business with people buying a number of items for the festival: ‘ellu-bella, sugarcane, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, ‘yelache hannu’, , groundnuts ,earthen pots, among others.

In the early hours of Sunday ,goods vehicle driver was killed on the spot after a speeding sports utility vehicle (SUV) slamed into his vehicle on the Outer Ring Road in Bhadrappa Layout.

According to police, Rudramuni, 24, goods vehicle driver was a native of Hiriyur in Chitradurga district.

The accident happened when the SUV veer off onto the main road and rammed the goods vehicle. Rudramuni died of serious head injury. The SUV driver deserted the vehicle and fled the spot.

An unidentified body of man was found next to the railway tracks between Hejjala and Kengeri in the early hours of Sunday. The age of the deceased was between 35 and 40.

The body was shifted to Victoria Hospital. According to senior railway official, there were injury marks on the face and abdomen. And suspected that he might have fallen off from a moving train.

The official further added that “It could be an accident or a case of suicide,”.

On Sunday morning, an elderly woman was mowed down by a locomotive at the City railway station around 8 am.

Nagamma, 60, a native of Chikkakallubala village in Kanakapura taluk, had come to the City to visit her daughter.She was crossing the railway tracks to reach platform 2 when a locomotive coming from the opposite direction slam into her.

Though she was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead on arrival.

A newly married man ends life at his house in Devarachikkanahalli on Saturday night. Manjunath, 24, an employee of a private company, had married his girlfriend three months ago, despite opposition from his family. Manjunath was found hanging in his resident.

According to police, Manjunath’s wife had went to her elder sister’s wedding a week ago and hadn’t returned home. Police doubt that Manjunath might have ended his life over the issue.

Bangalore is the supercomputer capital of India. The new list released by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2013 revealed that Bangalore has seven supercomputers, pipping Pune that has six.

Bangalore has beaten and Chennai with both cities having just one and two top supercomputers respectively. It even beaten Delhi, which has four if Noida is taken as part of the Delhi region. Hyderabad is doing well, having four supercomputers in the top-33 list.

Aam Admi Party (AAP) activists were allegedly attacked by a group of men near Bellandur, in HSR Layout, on Saturday evening. A cases against the unidentified attackers have booked by theHSR Layout police.

A team of AAP was busy with membership drive at Bellandur. A few persons arrived at the spot, wrangled with the workers, attacked them, tore the party’s banner and are absconding, according to AAP Karnataka State convenor Vijay V.

Central Crime Branch have arrested a private company employee on the charge of duping several people by promising them jobs in a well known software company.

According to police, Mukund T R, working as chief operating officer with Technologies Private Limited in Banashankari 3rd Stage, along with his partners in crime were arrested after a raid on his office.

His partners Naveen, Anil Deshmukh, Sandeep, Yeshwanth,Utkarsh Gupta, and Vijaykanth cheated several people promising jobs in IBM and are absconding.

On Friday, the CCB police arrested seven co-conspirator of notorious rowdy Korangu Krishna. Lethal weapons, an autorickshaw and three bikes were seized from them.

According to police,. they were planning to attack rival rowdy Chetan. The arrested have been identified as Narasimha, Ravikumar, Charankumar, Raghavendra, Manju, Prasanna and Basvaraj. Rajgopalnagar police have registered a case.

On Friday , Malesh, 38,a plumber by professional committed suicide at his residence in Muneshwara Block in Peenya night.

Accordin to police,the victim was a habitual drinker and said to be under heavy debt. There was no death note found. The Peenya police have registered a case.

A barbender fell to his death from the fourth floor of an under-construction building.

Bhima, 26, a resident of Bhavani Nagar near Banashankari, fell to his death from the under-construction commercial complex in Gururagahavendra Layout, JP Nagar 7th Phase, on Saturday while he was on his job.

According to JP Nagar Police, he rushed to a nearby hospital, doctors declared him brought dead. A case of negligence has been registered against the building owner and the contractor.

The Aam Aadmi Party headquarters in Bangalore is a scene of bustling activity. Nestled in a narrow dusty lane, a few steps away from the Cottonpet police station in central Bangalore, the head office sees at least 300-500 visitors every day, some curious and others hungry for change. Enthused by Arvind Kejriwal’s victory in Delhi, Bangaloreans are attending AAP meetings across the city and signing up in droves to join the party. “Anybody is better than the people we have had so far.